The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-08-06


The days are getting shorter.
--Lansford is to have fire company.
Hoops Golden Show tented here sever
al days this week.
Sale bills, picnic bills, and horse bills
printed while you wait.
The high license law will prevent beer
being sold at county fairs.
Instead of "brick," take home to
your wife cake Of Tulip soap
The Bethlehem soldiers monument
will he thirty-two feet high. Cost, $4,000
For best makes of carpets at lowest
prices, go to Kemerer & Swartz, Bank
street. If
The Schuykill county fair will be held
from the 20th to the 23rd of September In
elusive.
The thunder and lightning storm which
passed over this valley Sunday did much
damage.
Furniture of the best makes at prices
to astonish the buyers, at Kemerer e
Swartz's. If
-Olewine and Koch manufacture the
bricks to he used in the erection of Wieands 5
opera house.
The Lehghton base ball club are re
deeining Notwithstanding back lost
prestige, as It were.
The hottest part of the summer will be
fion the 18th to the 20th of this month.
according TO weather prognostcator
"A two-year-old girl at Bethlehem swal-
lowed half ounce of two grain solution
of atropine from which she died soon after.
Christ Lutheran church at Strauchs-
bury, Berts county, was struck by light
ming Tuesday night and completely des-
troyed
The candidates for the several offices
to be voted for at the coming fall election
promises to be far more numerous than In
any past year.
1t is unlawful to shoot squirrels after
September 1st. Some of you sportsmen
who are still catching trout should paste
this in your hats
Our neighbor james Rex feeleth very
happy owing to his good wife presenting
him with fine baby girl on Tuesday night.
We arc happy TO say that mother and child
are doing well.
The Lehighton base ball club will 60 to
Slatington on Saturday, 18th inst. and
cross bats with the Blue Stockings of the
latter place. The game will undoubtedly
be very interesting.
For the week ending on the 30th ult.,
there were 100, ,23S tons of coal shipped over
the L. & S. r. r. "A total to date of 2 S43, ,422
tons, showing an increase as compared with
same date last year of 2l3, $50 tons.
--Rev. James A. Little, d. D., will re.
turn from two weeks vacation in Rich
mond and Queens counties, New York, so
as to preach next Sunday, August 7th, to
his Ironton and Hokendauqua congrega-
tiens.
For the week ending July 30th there
were 1884, tons of coal shipped over the
lehigh Valley railroad, making total to
date of 4,622 '206 tons. and showing an in
crease of 714,3S4 tons compared with same
date last year.
-Ifthe thirty-seven gentlemen who voted
''for water tax" represent intelligence
we presume it is only fair TO consider that
the two hundred and fifty-six taxpayers
who voted against water taxi represent
common sense and economy.
We direct the attention of all readers
of the Carbon ADVOCATE to the adver-
tisement of Guth & Son, Allentown, which
appears on the second page of to-day's issue,
BY honest, square and legitimate business
transactions this firm has established
splendid trade here.
Charles Raudenbush son of Hon. A.
W. Raudenbush, entered the CARBON AD-
vOcArE office this week, and has been
initiated in the mysteries of the "black
art" Three years of perseverance, patience
and determination will graduate Charlie
first-class typographical artist.
AT meeting of the Democratic COM
mittee of the Fourth Legislative District
held at Hazleton on Saturday afternoon
last John Knles, Anthony Reilly and
Nathan Drum, of Butler, were chosen dele.
gates to the State Convention to be held at
Allentown the latter part of the present
month. The delegates were instructed TO
vote for Hon. w. NJ. Rapsher, of Mauch
Chunk, for Judge of the Supreme Court.
The following law may prove of inter-
est to people who borrow the ADVOCATE,
the subscriber who pays for his paper has
no occasion to blaspheme: "If any per-
son shall wilfully, ,premeditately and dispite-
fully blaspheme or speak loosely and pro-
fanely of Almighty God. Christ Jesus, the
holy Spirit or the Scriptures of truth, such
| persons, on conviction thereof, shall he
sentenced to pay fine not exceeding 500.
undergo an imprisonment not exceeding
three months, or either at the discretion of
the court.
In Arner's Pure Bone Super-Phos-
pilates the elements Of fertility are in such
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their work as soon as moisture can dissolve
them. The ingredients are dissolved bones,
blood, and the highest grades of chemicals,
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better. They are complete manure.
Manufactured by A. Arner d Son, New
Mahoning.
The lightning rod swindlers who offer
TO put new rods in the place of the old ones
for very small sum of boot money, have
turned up again. Their mode of operation
is to get the farmers signature TO
contract to pay the small differ
ence between the price of the new and the
old rods. OF course when the festive agent
is out of reach, the contract turns up as a
judgement note for four times the amount
of the original agreement. The dodge is